Shibi (), literally ''Stone Wall'', is one of four towns of

Ninghua County Ninghua () is a county of the prefecture-level city of Sanming, in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the west. The town of Shibi of Ninghua is well known as the cradle of the Hakka. Ninghua is also marked ...

, in western

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its c ...

province,''Fujian Sheng Dituce'' 福建省地图册, Gao Xiujing 高秀静, ed., China Map Publishing Co., 2003, People's Republic of China, near the border with

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into h ...

History

Shibi bills itself as the ''Cradle of the Hakkas'' () for its place in

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hun ...

history.

Republic of China

Year 2 :

Tingzhou fu Tingzhou fu () was a prefecture in Fujian province from the Tang Dynasty () down to the early 20th century, when it was renamed (). History As early as 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, the She people thrived along the Tingjiang river(), which origin ...

, the prefecture which oversees Ninghua, is renamed Changting (长汀).

Liberation

Tingzhou-fu/Changting is broken up; Ninghua and its towns now come under the new municipal region of

Sanming Sanming (, Foochow Romanized: Săng-mìng), also known as Minzhong (), is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to t ...

Notes and references

Township-level divisions of Fujian {{Fujian-geo-stub